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Manuel Margot went 4-for-5 including a double, scored twice and
walked, while Ji-Man Choi was 3-for-5 with a double, three runs
and two RBIs.
Vidal Brujan (double, three RBIs) and Francisco Mejia (double)
each had two hits as every starter logged at least one. Harold
Ramirez added two RBIs and another of the team's seven doubles.
The hits, runs and doubles were season highs for the Rays, who
have won the first two games in the three-game series.
Corey Kluber (3-2) tossed five-plus innings and allowed three
runs on six hits. He fanned five and walked one.
Tyler O'Neill was 2-for-4 with a homer and three RBIs for the
Cardinals, and Paul Goldschmidt singled in the sixth to move his
on-base streak to 44 games.
Opener Packy Naughton (0-2) was hit hard after recording just
four outs. The Rays scored four runs on five hits in the first
two innings.
In a three-run first inning, Choi bounced a one-out double off
the wall in left-center to bring home Margot, who singled off
Naughton's bare hand.
Arozarena -- once a coveted St. Louis prospect -- doubled in the
same spot but on a towering shot off the top of the wall,
caroming straight up and plating Choi. Brujan then grounded an
RBI double down the left-field line to make it 3-0.
In the second inning, Ramirez pushed it to 4-0 when he slashed
the club's fourth double to score Kevin Kiermaier. Brujan's
fielder's choice in the third added another run.
O'Neill battle Kluber in an eight-pitch at-bat before popping
out in the second inning, but in the fourth, he belted Kluber's
first pitch to him to the opposite field in right for a solo
shot, his third homer of the season.
In the sixth, O'Neill lined a two-run single to shrink the gap
to 5-3 and chase Kluber from the game. But reliever Jason Adam
got a double-play grounder and a long flyout to leave it 5-3.
Ramirez, Arozarena and Brujan all drove in the runs in the
bottom half to rebuild the lead back to five runs. The Rays
scored three more in the seventh.
St. Louis catcher Yadier Molina mopped up with a scoreless
eighth, yielding two hits and recording a strikeout in his
second career mound appearance, both coming this season.
--Field Level Media
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